The regional transport office (RTO) has taken up a four-day drive against overloaded vehicles in the district from Wednesday. Senior officials said that three RTO squads would be moving around the district to keep a check on overloaded vehicles and impose a fine.

The EU has been divided for months over how strict to be on CO2 emissions from cars and vans. Germany, with the bloc's biggest auto sector, has warned that tough targets could harm industry and cost jobs.

The Environmental Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority had restricted the entry of trucks to Delhi till November 10, which was extended to November 12 after the pollution levels refused to subside.

“The unbridled rise in fuel prices is severely hitting the transport business. Vehicle owners have stopped taking orders as the business has become unviable,”said G R Shanmugappa, president of the Federation of Karnataka State Lorry Owners and Agents’ Association

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Dheeraj Hinduja, chairman at India’s second largest truck maker Ashok Leyland, prefers a low profile, but with managing director Vinod Dasari leaving at the end of the month, he says he’s become more “hands-on”.